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BF3 issues with crossfire and eyefinity

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Is anyone else still haven't insanely annoying issues getting crossfire and eyefinity working in BF3?

I've tried everything I can think of. Latest attempt was a fresh install of win7 with only 11.10 installed. Tonight I'm going to try with CAP4. However no matter what I do if cross fire is enabled BF3 crashes to the desktop, BSOD's or freezes. If I have eyefinity enabled the hud is all jacked the menu is impossible to use because the mouse doesn't think the buttons are in the right place. This is a nightmare.

But when I disable crossfire and eyefinity and play on one card and on one monitor everything is honky dorey. Jeez.
 
OFaceSIG said:
If I have eyefinity enabled the hud is all jacked the menu is impossible to use because the mouse doesn't think the buttons are in the right place. This is a nightmare.
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BF3 doesn't work properly in any triple monitor configuration (eyefinity or surround) at the moment. Friendly health overlays are not displayed, etc. This is a Dice issue that they are apparently working on.


Re: your crossfire issue I'm not sure. I'm running 11.10 with Cap4 and it's working amazingly well when playing on a single monitor (for the reasons described above). 1920x1080 All settings on Ultra, High FXAA, HBAO On, No MSAA and averaging ~90fps with both GPUs constantly loaded at 99%. If you haven't tried Cap4 then it doesn't surprise me that it's not working correctly, but it does surprise me that you are getting BSOD's -- that makes me think you have some instability on the hardware side somewhere (PSU/GPU OC/CPU OC/Memory, Unlocked shaders that aren't fully functional, etc.). If your problems persist with Cap4 installed then I would start by making sure your PSU is adequate, removing any OC's, running memtest -- the usual.
 
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Snipe:

I have used CAP4 just wanted to try it out without on a fresh build to see a difference. I didn't know that eyefinity was the real cuplrit if that's true. When I get home from work I'm going to install cap4 and disable eyefinity. The cards do 100% in dirt3 so I don't think it's the cards.

Thanks for the info.
 
I've had driver failed to respond and crashes with Crossfire. There are times when I can play for hours without issues, usually on good, solid servers. I assign the blame for now that some of these 64-man servers simply can't handle the game and are causing some glitches. Rubber-banding and severe lag is the norm on some of these servers. I think these hosts are using outdated hardware for what by all accounts seems to be an extremely demanding game.
 
latest drivers on hardware?
check realtek soundcard might cause issues.

I have 90-100fps at 3840x800 atm.
due to eyefinity is broken there is a temp fix for nametages etc..
 
See this http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1647636 There is a fix that got the game working for me. I can confirm these tweak fix crossfire and eyefinity for my system in sig.

Edit to say that this isn't the end all fix as the drivers and game need to get up to par but at least we aren't shit out of luck.
 
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nope still can't play with crossfire or eyefinity enabled. :( :( :( I built my latest rig specifically for this game and I totally could have played it on my previous build. Thanks DICE.
 
Anyone else having an issue with Crossfire turning itself off or not working?

I lowered my res from 5760x1080 to 4800x900 and that finally got the friendly/foe tags to show up in the middle monitor, but game looks crappy since its not the native res. Anyways, with this workaround the first round runs perfectly fine with all 4 GPUs running at 90%+ Usage, but once the second map loads its like a slide show where I only get about 30-40 fps and looks to be right around 40-50% Usage per GPU. Don't have an exact number since I'm just going based off of the RadeonPro CFX bars on the left of screen. Odd thing is that while I'm alive and moving the usage is 40-50% and fps is terrible, but once I die and am sitting at the Loadout screen GPU Usage shoots back up to the 90% range and fps is 100+.

This is with the rig in my sig. Using 11.10 Preview 3 with 11.9 CAP4, the same thing happens with both 6990s sitting at stock 880/1250 clocks as well as 950/1435.

Any ideas :confused:? Game works fine on one monitor though...
 
SaViOr- said:
Anyone else having an issue with Crossfire turning itself off or not working?

I lowered my res from 5760x1080 to 4800x900 and that finally got the friendly/foe tags to show up in the middle monitor, but game looks crappy since its not the native res. Anyways, with this workaround the first round runs perfectly fine with all 4 GPUs running at 90%+ Usage, but once the second map loads its like a slide show where I only get about 30-40 fps and looks to be right around 40-50% Usage per GPU. Don't have an exact number since I'm just going based off of the RadeonPro CFX bars on the left of screen. Odd thing is that while I'm alive and moving the usage is 40-50% and fps is terrible, but once I die and am sitting at the Loadout screen GPU Usage shoots back up to the 90% range and fps is 100+.

This is with the rig in my sig. Using 11.10 Preview 3 with 11.9 CAP4, the same thing happens with both 6990s sitting at stock 880/1250 clocks as well as 950/1435.

Any ideas :confused:? Game works fine on one monitor though...
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Strange, Are you using the Ausum bios setting? Have you tried forcing powertune to +20 for your cards? If not I'd definitely give that a shot. The game runs very well for me... err in spite of the fact that I can't run my native resolution on this game yet because eyefinity support sux, but no odd performance issues or anything. I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far.
 
Lord_Exodia said:
Strange, Are you using the Ausum bios setting? Have you tried forcing powertune to +20 for your cards? If not I'd definitely give that a shot. The game runs very well for me... err in spite of the fact that I can't run my native resolution on this game yet because eyefinity support sux, but no odd performance issues or anything. I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far.
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Yep, I'm in Bios 1 (Ausum Mode) & always force 20+ on each GPU. I'm not really sure what the issue is since all 4 GPUs are being utilized properly on single monitor 1080P & the very first round of running in Eyefinity 4800x900 runs perfect with FPS in the 100+ Range, but once the second round is loaded up it'll run fine for about 30 seconds then usage drops like a rock regardless of what map it is :(. If I reload the server it'll run fine until the next map is loaded.
 
SaViOr- said:
Yep, I'm in Bios 1 (Ausum Mode) & always force 20+ on each GPU. I'm not really sure what the issue is since all 4 GPUs are being utilized properly on single monitor 1080P & the very first round of running in Eyefinity 4800x900 runs perfect with FPS in the 100+ Range, but once the second round is loaded up it'll run fine for about 30 seconds then usage drops like a rock regardless of what map it is :(.
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Strange, Try doing a clean install of the drivers and the caps using atiman uninstaller. Only thing I can think of. Many are using 6990 and eyefinity and aren't having the issue after the first map e.g. vega.
 
Lord_Exodia said:
Strange, Try doing a clean install of the drivers and the caps using atiman uninstaller. Only thing I can think of. Many are using 6990 and eyefinity and aren't having the issue after the first map e.g. vega.
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I'll give that a shot. Should I go with 11.10 Preview 3 and 11.9 CAP4 again or try 11.9/11.10WHQL along with CAP 4?
 
Also you don't think it could have anything to do with the game settings do you? I run Custom with Everything on ULTRA, FXAA High, SSAO, 16x AF, Motion Blur on 50%, Vsync Off
 
My crossfire was turning itself off randomly but once I flicked the switch on my cards and put them back on the failsafe 6950 bios everything started behaving itself. It seems my particular 6950s can play like a 6970 all day everyday by themselves. But for some reason when I tried to crossfire two unlocked cards it was no good, no xfire in hard reset or BF3. Now it's smooth sailing.
 
Any got eyefinity running right in BF3 yet? Besides that wierd reduced rez trick?
 
http://teamdof.com/?p=1384 Follow this exactly to the "T" and it will work and you will see all the icons where they are supposed to be at the proper resolution. Do not skip any steps or tweak them because you think you are cleaver.lol This worked for me and I used a value of .30000 for the HUD adjustment in the settings folder like it explains at the bottom of the page. I am running 3 24" 16:9 monitors. The only thing it wont fix is the crazy light bloom that caused some lights to look like huge verticle bands that fill the center screen like on Bazar. I have tried playing with the contrast and brightness settings with no luck It changes nothing. FOV will reduce the size but cause some odd looking graphics if you put it down to say 21.
 
HDR Shots said:
http://teamdof.com/?p=1384 Follow this exactly to the "T" and it will work and you will see all the icons where they are supposed to be at the proper resolution. Do not skip any steps or tweak them because you think you are cleaver.lol This worked for me and I used a value of .30000 for the HUD adjustment in the settings folder like it explains at the bottom of the page. I am running 3 24" 16:9 monitors. The only thing it wont fix is the crazy light bloom that caused some lights to look like huge verticle bands that fill the center screen like on Bazar. I have tried playing with the contrast and brightness settings with no luck It changes nothing. FOV will reduce the size but cause some odd looking graphics if you put it down to say 21.
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That doesn't appear to work for portrait eyefinity.
 
Roliath... What did you do? I just tried portrait again across my three 2007wfp's and still cant get it to work. I have 3 toxic's with 11.11 cap4...

I still get the Friend tags over on the left side monitor and completely off-axis of on screen characters, the hud and minimap are centered though.
 
macksomerville said:
Roliath... What did you do? I just tried portrait again across my three 2007wfp's and still cant get it to work. I have 3 toxic's with 11.11 cap4...

I still get the Friend tags over on the left side monitor and completely off-axis of on screen characters, the hud and minimap are centered though.
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This. Roliath, could you post a screenshot? My eyefinity in portrait the HUD can be centered, but it is the icons that are always messed up for me no matter what I do.
 
i'm late to work, i'll update this when I get in to work.
Here's the only other ss I have.
http://i.imgur.com/MiD8J.jpg


edit :at work, Are the tags supposed to show up on the middle monitor? And the hud is supposed to be on the middle monitor? The hud not being centered doesn't bother me, but the tags (friend/foe) works which is the only thing I'm worried about to be honest and they match up with the player and aren't off-centre.
 
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Thanks to this post http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/20318949-post63.html i have my eyefinity setup at 5760x1080 with no problems.

eyew.jpg
 
Still no dice for me... those instructions are really just setting up your eyefinity group again, which I did. My HUD is centered, but the chat box is in the center of the screen and player tags/friendly tags are not displaying properly. Trying to run 6048x1080.
 
Roliath said:
i'm late to work, i'll update this when I get in to work.
Here's the only other ss I have.
http://i.imgur.com/MiD8J.jpg


edit :at work, Are the tags supposed to show up on the middle monitor? And the hud is supposed to be on the middle monitor? The hud not being centered doesn't bother me, but the tags (friend/foe) works which is the only thing I'm worried about to be honest and they match up with the player and aren't off-centre.
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Everything looks fine and this is native resolution? Did you say you did anything special to get this to work? Are all 3 GPUs being utilized? So jealous I want to get mine to work properly too lol.
 
New patch for bf3 has resolved all of my eyefinity issues, player icons etc, map/status are all appearing correctly on the center screen, looks great.
 
Vega said:
Everything looks fine and this is native resolution? Did you say you did anything special to get this to work? Are all 3 GPUs being utilized? So jealous I want to get mine to work properly too lol.
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Yeah, bone stock install with native res at 3900x1600.
all three gpu's @ 99%
 
Eyefinity works great for me too after the update. Running 5760 X 1080 with 6990 + 6970 and 2600K @ 5.0 GHZ and getting between 60-100 fps on Auto/Ultra
 
Found a glitch already - in eyefinity/surround the heat seekers 'lock on' icon is completely missing. Atleast you can still hear it lock.
 
yep and the TK message doesnt show either ;) I get the you killed enemy but no TK... tri-fire 6950's on eyefinity portrait 20"
 
Elmy said:
Eyefinity works great for me too after the update. Running 5760 X 1080 with 6990 + 6970 and 2600K @ 5.0 GHZ and getting between 60-100 fps on Auto/Ultra
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hi, I would like to know what driver/ cap version you are using? I have the exact same system as you except at 4.9 GHz. And I run at 6048x1080 (bezel compensation). I'm currently trying the 8.93 driver.
 
Man good to hear eyefinity is much closer to getting squared away.
 
kandor said:
hi, I would like to know what driver/ cap version you are using? I have the exact same system as you except at 4.9 GHz. And I run at 6048x1080 (bezel compensation). I'm currently trying the 8.93 driver.
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11.11 with cap 2's
 
eyefinity broken with latest patch.
works worse than before it.
cant play with my chosen resolution.
 
Flopper said:
eyefinity broken with latest patch.
works worse than before it.
cant play with my chosen resolution.
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Wow, really Flopper? To be honest my eyefinity is better than ever after the latest patch. I get all indicators and objectives on my middle display, I can play at full native portrait resolution and my hud is centered in my middle display so I can now keep track of everything without having to look at my extreme corners which can distract me from the game. The 2 side monitors are for peripheral vision which is what they are meant for.

What drivers are you using? Have you tried removing all of your tweaks (if any) Some times tweaks you did initially may have an adverse effect on a future patch and only when going back to the raw settings of the game with the patch applied can you notice the fixes/improvements.
 
Heh Lord_Exodia,

I'm curious about 2 setup things, what angle to you have your side monitors at? And what fov are you using in bf3?
 
kandor said:
Heh Lord_Exodia,

I'm curious about 2 setup things, what angle to you have your side monitors at? And what fov are you using in bf3?
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My 2 side monitors are angled around 10-15 degrees. As far as FOV I have been trying different ones. I've tried 90 (default) and even 110. I think i'm leaning toward 110 but I'm not 100% sure yet.
 
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